Bussin' With The Boys - CFB Week 2 Picks: Taylor Lewan HAMMERS Michigan over Oklahoma + Josh Pate Has Texas Over Ohio State

Episode Date: September 9, 2026

Will, Taylor, and Josh Pate break down CFB Week 2. Taylor goes all in with five units on Michigan's moneyline vs Oklahoma and delivers the most passionate speech of the season on Bryce Underwood's judgment day. Josh Pate slaps the table with five units on Mississippi State and Kamari Taylor to beat Minnesota. Plus Tennessee at Georgia Tech, Arizona at BYU, Alabama at Kentucky, Texas hosts Ohio State in the Gravely Game of the Week, dogs of the week, and parlays.   Timestamp Chapters:   0:00 Open 3:35 Ford Leaderboard 7:43 Michigan vs Oklahoma 39:03 Tennessee at Georgia Tech 53:16 Arizona at BYU 1:03:18 Mississippi State at Minnesota 1:14:06 Alabama at Kentucky 1:23:15 Texas vs Ohio State 1:40:50 Dogs of the Week See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Let's get into the segment. We have the Ford leaderboard sitting here. It looks like Peyton and I, from a win-loss standpoint, where the exact same, Peyt has edged me out right now for, he has 3.2. 3.2 units? I'm sitting in second at 2.68. And then Will Compton in a strong third place

at negative 11.3. Top 3. Look. They're back in the operator. Down 67%. Will, you're not in the NFL locker room, but last year, Delaney Walker started abysmal. Probably the worst start anyone's ever seen

in a gambling season. and ended up coming back in winning. So I think that's good to watch Delaney, focus on what he's been doing in the offseason and kind of taking over that kind of game plan. I expect a big November out of you. Dude, I expect a big week two out of Willie's. Oh, really?

Let me tell you guys. You guys know this philosophy. In a world of massive pessimism, what is there? Pessimism. There's opportunity. Okay. The stock market crashes, what is the opportunist going to do?

Put the money in. If the housing market crashes, what's an opportunity it's going to do? Buy, buy, buy. If Willie C is down 67% after week one, what's the opportunity going to do? Bet on Peyton Taylor. Bet on Willie C. I took a big punch of the gut.

So what? I'm standing here. I'm looking at all of you right now. Who's going to feel confident after going down 67%? Nobody, except for Willie C. And I feel good about my picks this week. You feel great about your picks this week. I like my bag this week. I am a little confused on a few games. Josh Payton has a question. What I'm going to say is not my thought. This is not me talking. Oh, no. I'm going to say the pessimist would look at you and say,

how do you know you hit the floor? How do you know you didn't fall some of the way? But then the dust clears. It's like National Treasure. They're falling down the shaft. But then they look down and they still can't see the bottom. Or to put it another way, how do you know it won't get worse this week?

That's what the pessimist would say. Man in the arena. Yep. You know what I mean? Like I've been throughout. Win and doubt. Rosebelt. Yeah. Man in the arena.

Like you don't think I've been down 67% of my life in some phase, in multiple phases of my life. Like, I've seen the bottom. I know what it looks like. Yep. Reach. Man in the arena. I'll tell them.

Man in the arena. First show was in the books. E.S. Can we go. How about that time? That's fun time. Incredible. Josh Payne. Really, you ran a lot of that in the first.

It's really our first time doing actual television or hosting a show on real television. I thought you came in did an incredible job. My favorite part of the entire show is when they're in our year, going into like the third break and Will is giving a breakdown of what's to come hey we got the A gap next and we and all over our ears here

10 seconds so Will Drill's greatest decision his greatest decision was instead of letting it fade out and having nine, eight seconds of just quiet as people look at the landscape of Baton Rouge Louisiana it's Will counted down with us

we got nine seconds eight until we go to a commercial break stick with me here have some empathy, it's the first time. It was the most bustle with the boys as thing I've ever seen on mainstream television. It was amazing. Yeah, when we get back, oh, I'm hearing we got 10 seconds left.

Nice. Yeah. We worked it out. We worked it out. It was a good showing in Baton Rouge. We expect a good showing in Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor right now, it's in chaos. It's down 67%.

All right, the pessimist would sit there and say, how do you know this is not rock bottom? We'll find out this week. But the only way to really get a good gauge, a good temp, on that town is to see who shows up on Friday. Shows up on Friday at Ferry Field. Are they going to come, show out, and be ready to take on the local home. Before we get into the breakdown of it, where are you at?

Like friend to friend checking on my boy. Because you've seen a lot of phrases, the Michigan Bell Mary, the Michigan screw job, the Michigan miracle. Where are you at in your mind mentally, physically, and emotionally? You take 24 hours to digest what's taking place. I think the best thing for this school is that even though there is a win, we have a win in week one, nothing feels like a win in that game.

Most people would actually say that we didn't actually win that game, that the Big Ten went behind the max back, stabbed them, and allowed us to have one more second on the clock. It is what it is. 47-yard Hail Mary. I don't know what the odds are on that, but to do that twice and get one is, I think, a way better stat than it would be for anybody else.

I see the fan base rush the field. My initial thought on that is, yuck, I don't like it. It makes me feel hesitant. I pulled the leash back a little by my. People hated your celebration. People hated my celebration. That's where I was going. Then I look at my celebration, and as we're leaving Baton Rouge and flying back to Nashville,

I'm like, I can't believe you just kind of got excited. I think I can't believe you got that excited about Western Michigan. And the reality is this, those fans in that stadium and myself at the tarmac were, We're not getting excited about beating a Mac team, who won the Mac last year, actually a really good team. We should, you know, they're going to be solid this year. Kudos to Western. Yeah.

We are excited at the idea that our season isn't over. Because if you lose that game, the season is over. All the hopes and everyone buying stock in August and July and people talking about Bryce Underwood's camp, how much better he looks, look how great our roster is. Kyle Winningham sitting at a press conference saying, he will give him an A plus in the season. It just all feels like a lie at that point. And the only thing you would have to hang your hat on is, regardless of what people said or what people want to believe, we want to know. So that's me celebrating the same way the fans are of like, Western Michigan has nothing to do with it.

It's what our season is still alive. That's what makes the excitement in all the rushing the field. Do I love them rushing the field? No, do I love me jumping up and down and hugging paint and clump? No, I don't love that. That has to be my reaction in a week one versus a max school. but that was the most honest reaction I could have possibly had.

MFSGA. TK. TK. May you feel a little. And that's a good opportunity to bring up how people want to tell people how to fan. Like guys can't run in the field and be excited at their team. Seriously?

Saved an entire 2026 season. Possibly saved an entire 2026 season. Because there's a lot of examples out there that we can look at in a week one or early in the season for college teams in the past that have gotten their ass kicked in one week and then go on to win the national championship, lose to an inferior opponent, and make it to a national championship. We have plenty of examples of that. So for someone to say, hey, make field storming great again, it's just one of those things where it's like, why are we gatekeeping fandom?

Good. People can't go out and fan the way they want. The only thing I will not stand for when it comes to fandom is jumping off the bandwagon of your team so early. That's a fake fan. Someone who when the stuff gets a little tough, you're in the trenches, you sit there and you're like, you know what? I'm out. You got to be a trench guy. If you're going to say, I'm putting my name behind this team, the first time adversity strikes, you don't just run and hide. You don't just, you don't run away. You stick with your team. And if you make a statement two weeks prior saying, I'm not judging my team until week two, you stay with that team. You don't waver instead of adversity.

When there's turbulence on a plane, if you were to look at the flight attendant and she's shit in her pants, you're not going to be feeling pretty good. Be the flight attendant for your team when things aren't going well. That's what you need. It seems really, really personal.

No, no. That's your own internal clock. Are you talking to the wall behind me or you're talking to me? It's more at this. Thank you. My statement is more at this toxic warehouse that we live in where people want to sit

and tell people how to be a fan. great fans in this building. Every single one of you are great fans but because someone hasn't been a fan long enough or they okay not Jared well clump film how you want fan how you want if you're going to tie your name to a team it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if things are going well or not at some point you have to be realistic about your team but not in week two not in week two never in week two you do that after week two. You do that after week five. But if fans want to be excited about the fact that

their dreams of 2026 season, do we forget that we sat here? March, April, May, and we see the world start to get nasty. A war started around the world. June and July. Because football wasn't around. That was it. People say it's because football wasn't around. Now we get to football and we have all these fan bases that have hopes and dreams and aspirations of reaching the pinnacle. And And you almost lose to a Mac team. And at the last second, some say after the last second, you get a second chance at life, you're rebirthed, and you have your opportunity to keep your playoff dreams alive.

I think that deserves storming on the field. I think you can fan however you want. But what we will not do is turn our backs on the team that we love after one week. That's how I feel about that. We will not do that. That's how I feel about that. Hmm.

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out where he is mentally physically and emotionally. I feel like a lot was happening there to where one time I thought it was kind of directed at him. No, no, actually, none of that was ever directed at you. I thought we were talking how you just stared a hole in me, but it wasn't directed at me. Then he goes up. You were like my direct line of sight.

So that's when you thought it was at you, I thought I'd turn to who this is really about. But can I tell you? Can I tell you? Go ahead. You were seated right next to me. He was across from us. And there was, what was hour 15, hour 10 minute flight back from Baton Rouge. And there was like a solid, I don't know, 10 or 15 minute chunk after the high had worn off.

And you're all kind of looking at your phone. How long is it until we land? There was about a 10 or 15 minute chunk where you kind of had this look. And it was kind of, you're not looking at anyone. You're kind of just, you're lost in your thoughts. Yes. And at that point, I didn't say anything because I wanted to take it all in. And I wanted to give you your space to take it all in.

And then you kind of broke and you said, we rushed the field against Western Michigan after beating them. But I basically rushed my own field. And so you owned it in the moment. We were all witnessing it, experiencing it. In that moment, I said, Wednesday's still a long way away. Where will he be Wednesday? And I got to tell you, I'm happy.

Are you? I'm very happy for you. You're back. I'm back. You're going to board a plane and you're going to go up there Friday. And you're going to pick whoever you pick to win the game. I'm sure there'll be some honest thorough analysis. You'll give Oklahoma a good look.

And then come what may, it'll tee up and we'll kick it off Saturday at noon, Eastern time, right? Michigan, Eastern Time. Yep, yep. No, noon Eastern time. Now, a lot of people see pessimism. A lot of people see a reason to sell. But isn't there also maybe an opportunity to buy in here at the very, very bottom of the

barrel? Because as angry as I was at the, you know, the procedure and the way the Big Ten office handled it, that's like, that's in this cup right here. The Michigan Cup's like a whole separate cup. The Michigan Cup is, yeah, the offense didn't look anything like I hoped it would. Yeah, it was a lethargic performance. But what did I expect them to do? I expected them to start 1 and 0.

Record book says 1 and O. So now Oklahoma comes to town and, you know, what we get to do, we get to put the wounded animal theory to test. The difference is normally, normally the wounded animal is normally the wounded animal is coming off a loss. You're coming off a win. And everyone's treating it like a loss. Yeah. And now you get an opportunity against an Oklahoma team. You went to their building.

They beat you last year. They come to your building. And you got a really, really good defense, and the whole world is going to doubt you. And so I have looked at this game ever since the previous one ended. And I've said, I know what America's reaction is about to be. Is that going to be my reaction? It's loud.

The whole country is against Michigan right now. Michigan is essentially the LSU of the big time. Let me, okay, let's throw this out there. Let's throw this out there. Because that's a very, very, very loaded statement. By far as public opinion. Like wanting them to lose. Clearly, the office is not the same right now.

That's not what I'm saying, fellas. Yes, it will be. That's a great take. This year will it get there? Listen, I deserve my true opinion about Michigan until after week two. Until after week two. Do you think the whole world's against Michigan?

Or the world's angry at the big 10? I don't think the world has zoomed out enough to realize they should be angry at the big 10. Shame on the world. Shame on the world indeed. I think because of 21 through 23, all the stuff that happened with Sharon Moore in the off season this past year, there's clearly a negative light that is on Michigan. I am not too ignorant to see that.

And because this comes up and the logo is Michigan, they don't see that they don't make the call and make the decision for an extra second or the second not to be fully done. That is a Big Ten decision that took place. Michigan is catching shrapnel because of the last four or five years. And I can fully get on board with that. I can understand why the hates there. I can understand why people that aren't even Oklahoma fans are going to fly to this game just to root against Michigan.

I think that's exactly where Michigan needs to be right now. I'll tell you this too. Around noon central time yesterday, we were sitting in this nice air conditioning office. And what was taking place in Ann Arbor on that practice field will be forever known as Bloody Tuesday. I have been told that is one of the most physical and painful practices that any program has gone through in the last 25 years.

And there's a big issue with physicality and the line of scrimmage. I think they got after it yesterday. In a way that I'm hoping will show up on Saturday. In a way that you can't really write in the book because it was that bloody. Yeah, it was, yeah, you can't write that. You can't put that in a Disney movie.

I know that. You can't do that. Is there a part of you that's like bloody Tuesday in week two this soon already? I think we just got out of training camp. Given the circumstances of what took place and how lethargic, your words, of Michigan was on the opposite side of the ball, yes. And you go back and watch the first drive. Like it was like the first, they marched on the field, 75 yards, and score.

But they didn't play clean. They had a botched snap. Bryce threw into double coverage at one point. Like the run game wasn't super efficient. Even the one that Bryce almost scored on where he rolled out. Like that, if that was handed, that would have been a touchdown right away. Like there were things you saw where it's like, yeah, the result was six. But it wasn't like, wow, look at this operation taking place.

The line of scrimmage wasn't moving the way it was supposed to move. I can tell you're a caged animal when you're ready to cook, so I'm just going to interject and just say what the line is on this game. And you can keep going and build off of last week's performance. But right now, surprise, surprise. Oklahoma at Michigan, the line right now has moved. It is now four and a half. Oklahoma's favored by four and a half.

The over under on this game, the total is 43 and a half. Go ahead, continue to get in the kitchen. I've kind of said a lot. I'd love to hear your guys' opinion about where this game stands. I've kind of given my opinion, we can talk about the game. I think Oklahoma's a great football team.

But go ahead. I think this is Bryce Underwood's biggest game of his life. Agreed. Because you listen to Coach Whittingham come out this past week in press conferences. And the feeling seems to be that his name is written in pencil as a starter. Even everybody who,

last year, was either playing well or he wasn't playing it well it was up and down it was up and down and then coming into this year it was confidence now i feel like that confidence in the public favoritism of brys underwood has now turned in your fingers or crossed behind your back hoping that he is going to turn it around because like everybody is now on the fence of bryce underwood because you look at last game like it was it was not very good to put it as lightly as possible Bryce is a first read cat every throw that I seen him break down because there wasn't a lot. I had a little jokingly sarcastic tweet, great news.

Michigan didn't show a lot of offense when they faced Oklahoma next week. But again, there wasn't a whole lot of offense shown because out of the 12 throws that Bryce has, five of them are screens. And then you have the other ones that happen. He has an interception or a pick six that does get called back, right? Well, yeah, he said the DP steps out of balance. had one in the first quarter as well, and only because the DB tips it while his foot is out of bounds, that it wasn't an intersection. His only big throws were the hell, Mary, and then a botched snap

that he fumbles and he throws it up, and my man, one hands it. But other than that, he's, he knows where he's going pre-snap, and he's going there no matter what. The pick six, the throwing into a cloud corner, and he gets his tight-in yop, and he's kind of smiling after it or a lot. I don't really know if he's meaning it, like, I have no clue. And then other throws where he's trying to get the ball downfield, he's forcing into double coverage. He's not going through any progression. But if Michigan's going to have a shot to win this game, in my opinion, they're going to have to do things. They're going to have to do two things. Play penalty-free because they shot themselves in the foot a lot with penalties. And they're just going to have to win on early downs. Because this

Oklahoma defense is fast. They're physical. They get after your ass. And offensively, like, I, there's just not a lot of hope in my brain that Bryce is just going to turn it around all of a sudden when his coach is kind of saying his name's written in pencil, when everybody's on him, they're on the fence now of not being really confident. They got their fingers behind their back. And it's like all of that pressure, I know he gets paid a shit ton of money, but all of that going on in the psyche of a 19 year old that knows, he only he knows if he's going to get to where he's working his progression. And one more thing on Bryce is like, yeah, he's 19, he's making a bunch of money. But this is probably the first time in his life he's dealing with this type

of adversity from people judging you in a negative light on the floor. Tori, he's truly getting questioned as a football player. Yes. Your identity that you've probably had since whenever you put the cleats on for the first time is now in question that you're not who you thought you were. Yeah. Publicly. And then when you look at Oklahoma and John Mateer, to me, John Matier is what you hope

Bryce Underwood would be. Because when I watch Mateer, like he didn't have all the biggest stat line in the world, but when you watch him play, he's somebody that has very calm feet, he seems very confident. He's going through progressions when he is in those moments of throwing the ball downfield. There's one clip out there where he's got a fire zone coming in his face. And his first read is the scene flat player where it looks like it's man to man. He feels like he's a little too tight. But his feet are calm and poised to where he goes backside and hits old buddy over the middle while he's getting hit.

The run game, you can tell that they want to establish the run. What is it, Avant number nine? Yeah, number nine. You can tell that this is a team that wants to be physical and run the ball this year based on how bad they were at the line of scrimmage last year. And you go to, they're going to see a lot of, Michigan is going to see a lot of 12 personnel sets. They might open it up a little bit more. Oklahoma might not have shown a lot last week.

But they're going to be in a lot of two tight-in sets. And those boys can block. Those dudes can block, man. There's not going to be a lot of film that you see on these tight ends to where they had an MA and miss assignment or lost physically at the line of scrimmage. So I feel like all of that. I trust Michigan's defense. I trust Oklahoma's defense.

I'm confident about Oklahoma feeling good. offensively. I feel like I haven't seen enough there. This is a massive John Matier game because he's going to be put in those situations where it's third and medium and he's going to have to make some magic with his feet or keep his eyes downfield. I like the under most in this game just because the way it's swung, mission kind of being in a wounded animal situation. They're going to obviously open up the playbook and you just hope Bryce Underwood is going to make the correct decisions, run the ball a little bit more, go through progressions. I don't feel like it's there, but where I'm going to go with my bet,

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Listen to Our Town on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It would really shock me if Michigan got run off the field. It would not shock me at all if Michigan won the game. It's like waves in a bath. That's how college football works. It doesn't just stay on one side. Like every action has a reaction. I don't know if it's equal or opposite.

So you and I were talking about the concept that sometimes teams just are not ready to play what they know as an inferior opponent. And then the result will track, which is kind of a version of what happened last week. Now, maybe there are just terminal flaws with this team. But like you said, we don't know that. It's week one. So week two comes around. Oklahoma comes to town. Let's say that dynamic was in place.

I don't have to worry about that against Oklahoma. I know everyone will be up against Oklahoma. So I'm going to get your absolute best. At this point, we've got to find out what your best is. I think it's really dumb, like you said, for anyone to think, oh man, Bryce Underwood's got to step up and win this game. You're not going to get a great game out of him. You're not going to get a great box score game out of him.

What you can get is what Georgia Tech did last year with Haynes King, knowing what you got at quarterback and running the crap out of him. Because that's what gives you the best chance to win. And I can tell you those two tailbacks going 16 for 59 yards. That's not going to get it done. Like to me, I know Bryce Young or Bryce Underwood, rather, is the face of all this. But like offensive line not taking over the game last week. Those tailbacks not taking over the game.

Like collectively, just as a team, even if it's close at half, even if it's close mid third quarter, you're Michigan. Eventually you just lean and you lean and you lean and they break because they're Western and you're just Michigan. So that never happened. So like there's got to be a soul search. program-wide, not just the quarterback position. And if I were to look up Saturday and let's say it's like 17 to 16 Michigan in the fourth quarter, it's probably not because Bryce Underwood's thrown for 310 yards. His stat line probably looks pretty pedestrian, but he's protected the ball.

They've owned field position. They have not let Oklahoma be number one in red zone scoring percentage, which they were offensively last year. They've taken care of business down there. They've held them to threes. like they've done the critical things, hidden yardage stuff, team football, complimentary football. That's what Michigan should be capable of. It wasn't, but two weeks ago, we sat here and you and I think maybe Will contributed, but it was mainly you and I locked into the idea that maybe Michigan's a sneaky playoff contender.

I haven't forgotten why I felt that way. And the reasons I felt that way are all still on this team. The problem is, that's feel. And eventually Oklahoma comes to town. And like, I believe in Oklahoma too. But Oklahoma's not, they're not smoking mirrors. Oklahoma's not flash. They're not sizzle.

Like Oklahoma's a wrecking ball. And you don't find yourself offensively against that kind of team. So to me, the path is, can I scratch out 20 points here? And then can I make that enough? That's to me the Michigan plan. Yeah. And if they score non-offensively, great. But I'm saying 20 offensive points.

Can I find those? And if I can, I'm very happy with it. with that and at that point I take my chances. I think their shot here is doing that is running Bryce Underwood as much as you need to and then finding a way to bait John Mateer into some of those hero balls that he throws up sometimes and hoping that you can get a pick, hoping that maybe defensively you can make something happen. That scenario does not surprise me at all if it happens. I'm like a really, really slight one unit lean to Oklahoma minus four and a half or five and a half. Five and a half.

Dang. It was at five and a half again. It got up to six and a half yesterday this morning at four and a half. So it's moving around quite a bit. It's moved to another point. I got to tell you, I think it's- What do they know? Maybe they don't.

It's bouncing all around the place. Maybe they don't know anything. Yeah, they're trying to figure it out. You know the public, the tickets, heavy percentage is Oklahoma being favorite. Yeah, absolutely. And as they should be. Like all the things we broke down about Michigan

and how bad they were on offense, it was as a fan. like I know all the anger that's put towards Michigan. But the one thing that I would hang my hat on is a guy that wore the maze and blue and be excited about every single time is any team that went and played Michigan, you would think to yourself like,

oh, you have to buckle your chin strap up a little bit more and put some more air in your helmet because that is at the very least going to be an extremely physical game that they are more times than not going to win. That did not take place in week one. I have a lot of respect for Oklahoma. Clearly we had a quarter zip situation back in the playoffs.

But still, the school, the pageantry, the blue chip, all of it. John Mateer, bulking up, looking a whole lot better. Like, I like Oklahoma a lot this year. They returned seven starters on the defensive side of the ball. They got a nose tackle that is supposed to be an elite cat. They got guys that are just disciplined and do not make mistakes. On the opposite side of the ball, you brought out, they ran 12 a lot.

They ran 12. 50, 50 plays out of their, what, 63 plays, maybe, and then they had 11 more on an 11 personnel. So they are, Brent Venables, which we've talked about, is they were horrendous at running the ball last. year. This year there's a concerted effort to we need to run the ball better. So they get the two transferred tight ends, both great blockers. The one from Colorado State is a little bit of a better of a pass catcher. Rocky Beers? Rocky Beers. What a name too. What a name. And 89's like thick. Like you can tell he loves block. The thing that gives me hope and optimism is Oklahoma's injuries that have taking place on their offensive line. Their left tackle who is an elite talent. I think this kid's got a very special future, especially

on Sundays, he's nursing this right arm. Like, you see it throughout the game. I think he only played like 17 snaps and they're wondering if he's not. And they have a couple more guys that are backups that are injured that may or may not be back coming into Saturday. But if he does play, the guy going against him is John Henry Daley, who had 11 and a half sacks before he tore his Achilles last year at the University of Utah. On the other side of him is Dom Nichols, who had two sacks against a Western Michigan team that threw the ball like 14 times throughout the game. So this is a very talented, very aggressive defensive line. And I say defensive, aggressive hesitantly because what gets teams into trouble with John Mateer is overaggression

in your pass rush. So there has to be a level of rushing the passer, making John Matier feel uncomfortable to throw those hero balls, but also keeping it in a cage rush where he doesn't have a lot of outlets to go and run. Because you're going to have a Todd Bulls, a Nathaniel Staley out there, basically mirroring John Matier the whole time, shadowing him, watching him. So if he does break out of contain, you have a guy on him quickly so we can't hurt you with his legs. offensive side of the ball. You have so many guys returning on the offensive line. I think the whole team has starting experience from last year.

You have a little bit of an exchange taking place of who's going to really start at the guard position. But Harding, the O-line coach, has been, he's one of the best O-line coaches in college football. He's had multiple first-round picks of the University of Utah. He's been with them for a long time. Then there's Bryce. And I think you put it perfectly about this. kid, this is truly judgment day for him. He, this is not like a, hey, we'll get him next week

type of mentality when it comes to Michigan. After Whittingham's thoughts about the public at the university, like, we are truly going to find out on Saturday who this kid is and what he's truly made of because this is the first time in his life that he's been backed into a corner and people have pointed out and be like, maybe you're not the football player, we thought you were. And two things you're going to happen. He's going to adapt or he's going to die. And I think the way you adapt is, you sit there as Jason Beck the offensive coordinator and you say you have one, maybe two reads. And once those two reads are, if they're not clean, get out, use your legs.

You run them. I think there's been a lot of negativity surrounding like his toughness about like when people are at his feet, when the pocket starts to close a little bit, that's when you see a lot of those throwing a double coverage, taking hits, fumbling. To me, it's like, hey, like you need to prove that you're tough. You need to prove that you make the decisions. You can take care of the football. But at the end of the day, one game and how much.

how bad that rush was, when you have all of your starters back from the year before on the offensive line. Can't be that way. It can't be that way. To me, it's like, we looked at Whittingham, and it's like, this coach is a winning head coach at a no disrespect, a program that doesn't get the same amount of talent as Michigan gets. Yet every year, he's putting nine, ten wins on the board, and he's doing it without a drafted quarterback.

The last drafted quarterback he has was Alex Smith in 2011. that was a first round pick. So all those things considered, if your quarterback is not doing well, Kyle Whittingham should be the perfect coach to have on your team to make your offense still successful in those ways. You had Jordan Marshall, who rushed for not, I think he was like 38 yards away from 1,000 yards last year. You have saving harder, who was the best running back in his class.

You got who's the receiver number three, Marsh. Andrew Marsh, who had almost 1,000 yards last year, and with a quarterback that had back. numbers, J.J. Buchanan, who was truly the only highlight of the offense, he had 125 yards receiving. So you have all this talent. Put the ball down, make it, make it gritty. Don't look at scoring a touchdown on a drive as a winner or loss. Sustained drives in the first and second quarter. Don't go three and out. Figure out a way to move the sticks, even if it ends up in three. Even if you end up taking five, six minutes off the clock and then end up punting, those are the

small things when you're in a position like this offense is that is going to breed success for the long haul because I believe that this defense is going to keep this game close. Like we have a great defense, but we have two corners and a safety that will play on Sundays. We have three Dean Lyman that I believe was playing on Sundays. We have so much talent in Jay Hill who will get to BYU in a little bit, was it had a top 20 defense with a BYU logo on his on his hat. And then people talk about how Like, how can you make this big of a turnaround? How can this take place? And yet we forget that two years ago,

Notre Dame goes and beats Texas A&M in a dramatic fashion in the next week, lays an A against NIU and still makes it to the national championship. We forget that 2014, Virginia Tech walked into Columbus, Ohio, and beat that ass 3514, and Ohio State win won the national championship that year. So one week doesn't define a team. I've said from the beginning,

week two is where I judge my team. And I'll continue to judge my team. I got five units on Michigan Money Line. Oh, shit. I got five units, Michigan Money Line. If you're not going to back your team... Talk to them! If you're not going to back your team in moments of adversity,

shame on you. That's the only thing they make you a bad fan. Damn. You're coming from blood this way. This is going to be bloody Saturday for Taylor 1. This will be the most physical game. Anybody will watch this college football season. I got to, I got to digest.

That took me out of nowhere. I think I taught for 15 minutes. I might have talked for 15 minutes. You laid out the entire roster of Michigan. Dude, we are going to talk about other games. This is the one that matters. Like all the other ones. Texas Ohio State.

You guys have a great time on this show. This is, it's more than a game. This is, dude, we sit here since the season ends. Break the game down. You just hope that your team, you watch the transfer portal, you watch spring ball, and you get to week one and that happens. I can't have my season end like that. You won't have your season in like that.

I will not have my season in. And if it does, I am on the Titanic and I am the captain of the ship and I will watch that water come in and I can't wait to drown with my team if that's the case. It's an honor to die with that team this weekend if that's the case.

So now you're dying? I'll kill myself. It's going to be an honor to die with my team this weekend. We're laughing. No, I'm just kidding. Anyway, that's how I feel. under Michigan money line. No, Josh went owe you.

I went owe you for one unit. Wow. You never gave it away. It's all words, dude. You never gave away. It's all words. I can't play the game. The table slap.

I can't play the game. Josh, I can't play the game. Of course you understand. I wish to God I could. I wish I'd get out there for one more. One more round. I know you do, bud. Fuck, man.

Man. Where are we at next, boys? I'm just, you know, you try and think ahead. You try and plan ahead in life. And I'm just thinking Saturday, 5.30, 6 o'clock, dust is settled. We know the result. I picked Oklahoma. I think I may pull from Michigan. That you're in a great spot to do it because you only put one unit. Yeah, like I'm, if it took that to save your life. Yeah. In the most literal of census.

Yeah. I may pull for Michigan. Yeah, because it's 5.6. He just went to Judge Pater. He won't move his unit. I know. And trust me. I know where the trenches are.

No, no, no. You stay far away from the unit. No, no. I know what I want to do in my units. I'm in the trenches and I'm looking out going, guys, you're coming? And I got one guy going, I think you're going to lose,

but only by a little bit. And the other guy going, going to be a low scoring game. And I just got my helmet on. I'm so there. There's a lot of them because there's a lot of help, fellas. Could you need some help over here. Holy shit, there's a lot of them. There sure is, man. There really is.

That's the whole country? That's the whole country coming at me. I'm not going to lose. It's going to be low score. It's going to be low score. Good game. Good game. Good game. Great game. I hope to God. It's a good game, man. There's no shortcut for saving time, but saving money is simple. Just combine your car and home insurance with Belair Direct and save. Get a quote at bellair direct.com. On the new podcast Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first.

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Hey, Tennessee at Georgia Tech. Yeah? Fais on Brandon. Fais on Brandon. Tennessee and Georgia Tech right now, Tennessee is favored. Fais on Brandon's first start on the road at 12.5. The over under on this game,

55 and a half. Josh, do you have a good feel about this game? Do you feel confident about this game? Not a great one. No, our number's 12 and a half right now. Model is screaming Georgia Tech. and yet I listened to Brent Key at his press conference yesterday

laughing about his own team. Maybe it's psychological, maybe it's mind games or maybe when the guy said, hey, so Josh Heppel says you've got a physical team and when Brent Key said, did Josh say that before or after week one? If you said it after week one, I think he's just trying to be funny.

Maybe Brent Key's being dead serious. Maybe they just don't have what they thought they had. Colorado winning, it was no fluke that Colorado won that game. It feels like it was a long time ago, but like Colorado went in. in there and like kind of handled Georgia Tech. Didn't dominate them, but like they handled Georgia Tech in a way that was really

surprising. And you're not ever going to convince me Georgia Tech wasn't up for the game or anything like that. It's a home opener. It's on national TV. So Tennessee, the only thing I wonder is like, I think Tennessee is really good on the offensive line. They got at least two really good tailbacks.

It is a true freshman quarterback's first start against legit competition on the road. So like you kind of wonder how he'll handle it. If you want a wounded animal, this is your wounded animal. This is Georgia Tech after having Dion come into your house and beat you. And now that was the one spotlight game. This is your bigger spotlight game. This is the SEC coming to your backyard. You're a double-digit dog in your own building.

You've still got a lot of newness. They're so new as a team. They brought in so many new pieces, new coordinators, new players all over the place, new quarterback. I just wonder if it's settled in enough. So I don't have a lot of confidence at all in this. game. I certainly think Tennessee is going to end up winning the game. That has big implications for us traveling down the road, possibly if Tennessee wins or loses this game. I very slightly

lean Georgia Tech plus 12 and a half. This is another one unit bet for me. So you're in the leader of the clubhouse and now you're getting conservative with your units. I'm just looking out the window. Yeah. Sitting out there going this is nice. I want to stay in here. Playing not to lose in week two. That guy over there is already down 11. That guy's, that guy here's dead. No, no. This guys, I might behind you. In the unit category, this week, though, if it goes my way. We got a long season. We do. It's a long season. There was, I got to, there was a couple of whispers yesterday. Hey, you did pretty good in the first locker room. And it's just like, that's pickles on a sandwich. That's rat poison. It's rat poison. Because it's like, yeah,

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given the fact that they could not run the ball at all. What concerns me the most of Georgia Tech is their offensive defensive line. Like Colorado, kind of the biggest news coming out of Colorado in the offseason was how small their team looked and how little they looked, yet they own the line of scrimmage on both. sides of the ball. And I also agree with you where Tennessee has a much better offensive line than

Colorado has. And when I put on the film against Furman, I don't think Tennessee's office line played particularly well. Like they just kind of leaned on guys. Sanders that left tackle, I think he is like another world talent where, you know, probably a first round pick, but he's very raw technically to where some of these Furman defensive linemen are getting him like falling over at the hips, kind of waist bending quite a bit and getting around him a little bit. But I love Josh Hypo and I love his play calling ability. I love how he has a freshman quarterback

starting for the first time and as much yards as he thrown for, he didn't put too much on his plate with super complex routes and having multiple reads. It was, hey, you have these one or two things. If that doesn't work out, extend the play if you see something else, if not run.

It's a very simplistic game plan. But I like the way Hypole, if things aren't working in the past game, he'll go to the run game. And he has that ability with Bishop and the backfield. with that offensive line. And obviously with Faison Brandon,

his ability to run the ball. I love the story of Georgia Tech going to week one, getting embarrassed, coming out in week two. But I'm not, I put the film on it. I'm not so sure that Furman's defense line

isn't better than Georgia Tech's defense line based on the film that I saw. And they were playing against better talent. So I like Tennessee minus 12 and a half here. I think it's, I think Mendoza, he hurt his ankle in the second quarter of that game. on around a little bit, clearly had fight, had leadership, character, the whole thing when he was playing

and tried to will his team into an almost win. But Tennessee, I think, is too good. I think their defense aligns too good. They got a, what is it? What's the kids name? Avian. Aaron? Aaron. Aaron Carter. He's coming back after the suspension because he took some money to get on a flight to go see a scout. He's back. He's a great defensive player. I like Tennessee a lot in this position. Dude, hit the table again. I'm not hitting the table. You only get one again. You only get one.

You only get one. I'll put three units on it. I'll put three units on Tennessee minus 12 and a half. Is that legal? I just, I slap it's at three and a half. I like the confidence. Can I say this? Three units.

That number is 12 and a half right now? Yeah. Let's say that Phazon Brandon deep throw highlight that was circulating Twitter because you know people didn't watch the Furman game. So they saw that highlight. Let's say that doesn't circulate like it did. like it did. And let's say the ending of that Colorado game really is just

Alberto Mendoza leads them down. Georgia Tech scores. Colorado does not have time because Georgia Tech handles their timeouts more properly. And Georgia Tech beats Colorado close. What do you think that number would be? I think it would be 7.5. I think it'd be like 8 and a half or 9. So I think it's overinflated. That's why

I'm taking Georgia Tech to cover Tennessee to win one unit. That's fair. So you're playing pretend. No, I'm not pretend. I'm not Sometimes we have to. He's like, let's pretend you don't see that clip. Dude, Brent Key's got to be disgusted with what he saw on tape against Colorado.

Colorado, to your point, Taylor, they were able to run the football. I mean, nine penalties. Also, you talked about Mendoza, but five for 13 on third down, if you're Brent Key, you got to be like, what that, like, no disrespect to Colorado, but what are we doing against Colorado and getting pushed around by Colorado? Tennessee, in my opinion, is they're a team that's going to be sitting there in the conversation of the SEC and in my in my opinion maybe itching for the playoffs like an eight plus win tennessee team dude i love hypoe with quarterbacks it does not matter who the quarterback is he's proved

that nico had his best year when he was a freshman with hypo at tennessee it was like who was this joey aguilar kid he wasn't a runner whatsoever he bawled out and now you got phaise on brandon who is a stud he is a dude he had a couple freshman moments to where maybe he missed a receiver or his timing was or his alignment was off mentally for what the receiver was going to do to where he whips one out of bounds. But I like the ability. He didn't look like a freshman back there. He had a lot of poise. And I listen to you say like, yeah, this veteran offensive line didn't have the best

game in the trenches. But also a part of me as I watch the tape because they run a lot of these 30 backfield looks to where there's three guys in the backfield. So it was like a win tea in a way. Yeah, exactly. And there's a lot of moving parts because you have true quarterback. design run, you have zone reads with sifters and pullers, you have RPO's off of it, you have quarterback draws, you have a lot of things that they're trying to do from a schematic standpoint

to where I just think this veteran group will get going and they will get more comfortable to where there will be more wrinkles. And maybe you could break this down on an offensive line standpoint, but maybe that puts you on your heels a little bit more because you might not know what the defense is going to give you when they see looks like that. Like teams that are now going to be practicing against some of these looks. There's a lot of things that you have to do, because it's not like a traditional two tight ends on the ball or one tight end off the ball and the gap might change once or the gap might change with pullers. It's like, yo, there are three guys back there to where pullers can happen, sifters can happen. You can flood a zone one way. And also you've got

to worry about what is my responsibility if it is a zone read or if it is an RPO to where you're a little hesitant, especially on the second level, to where you might not get back in that window in time because Faison is doing a great job of seeing the one key he needs to see to where this is a design run but it's a run-pass option.

I'm going to whip it out to the side with Mike Matthews. And you got a back like Deshawn Bishop in the backfield who had over a thousand last year. Like to me, this offense is going to do nothing but get better.

And I just think what I saw from Georgia Tech's defensive line and again, the penalties to five for 13 on third down. I like Tennessee a lot here. I like him at minus 12. I like him so much.

This is my pound of table. Oh, wow. I love Tennessee. I know freshman quarterback on the road for his first time. Jesse was in my ear before, I started to let a little bit of doubt come in my brain about it. But man, when I watch this offense, I think they're going to do nothing but get better and get more comfortable in all of the scheme that they're doing because they have a lot there. And Bezon Brandon, he can whip the ball around and he can run. We're going to be talking about Camario Taylor here in a little bit, but kind of an iteration of that guy where you can do anything. He can do anything. He's got

freak athletic ability. From the office alliance perspective, but what you're saying, when you have that kind of wing teeth, 30 back, it can look very confusing for an office alignment because when you condense everything in there, we have three backs in the backfield behind the line of scrimmage. Now you get more linebackers and safety's kind of in the box as well. But the simple way to do it is like if you're going to run a zone read or a gap scheme, look out of those and then the backfield has their crazy motions and shifts and everything that's going to be much more confusing for the defense. It just becomes a number game. So if you're the left tackle in the situation, you can, count one, two, okay, I go to three. To where you know at this play, I'm going to the three spot here. So you can count off to where it looks really like there's a congested box. But at the end, it's all going to kind of open up because you have one back going this way, another one going

that way, Faisa's not rolling out. So you can just count that, you know, okay, I have this guy or the guy that ends up in this spot. So you can really simplify with that kind of wingty look as an offense alignment. It's just a matter of the coach going, hey, don't talk about mics and Sam's and wills or jacks or plugs like you just need to go one two that's my guy right there right you know or you're going to a location like power any kid out there that runs power or wants another one power if it's to the left side close your eyes go to one o'clock and you're going to be correct like it's really just gaps it's so simple when you do the base plays because you can the best thing about josh hypoil is he runs a thousand different motions he has a thousand different

looks but 90% of his plays are so basic It's the window dressing that takes place. So it's very easy on the offensive line, and it looks very confusing. But at the end of the day, if you took a snapshot at the end when the ball is snapped, it's like, okay, this is clearly a west wing alignment and they're running duo. They're running zone. And that's where, especially in college when you have these younger cats, you know, we're about to talk about BYU in a second.

Some guys are 30. But you get into a position where it's like guys aren't going to be able to differentiate all the American Primeval. It's making a comeback. Into like a year two. question for you or maybe just an assumption like on the scouting card when you're going against what the defense could potentially do you're seeing all the scouting cards to where they're trying to run it correctly whereas an offensive line and you might be seeing your second level

player who's in the three count who might just make a mistake and they just get a little unsure do I still go this direction do I just pound down here to where you're kind of thinking a little bit to where all the classroom work is like hey if they make that mistake here's where the upside is here's where it's beneficial don't worry about this because I feel like you are going to get a lot confusion when you are trying to game plan against the 20 and 30 look backfield sets that you get against Tennessee. Yeah, and that's where it turns into you go from the number count until you go to spots. Like middle of the field is what you're going to where the mic would usually be. You're going to go backside to where the whale would usually be.

Yeah. And then that makes it so much easier. A lot of offensive line and we can go back to the mission game and talk about it, but I won't. Is sometimes you just got to pull the rip cord and realize like you're going to a location and the guy that's in that spot is most likely going to be your guy. And if you just simplify the game, now you can play a whole lot a hell of a lot faster. Tennessee, they didn't play great on the office line. They had an inferior opponent,

so they were very successful. But they have so much talent on that office line, other than that right tackle was a little shaky. The right tackle was really. He moved into guard. But that's how I feel. I like 12 and a half. And I like buying Wilcoffin stock low now when we started the show

when we talk about the pessimist versus the optimist. I was kind of on the pessimist side. Like, I don't know what I was going to do. But now that we're in the trenches together, I love Tennessee. Yeah, there we go. I'm at three. I'm at three on that one.

Going to Michigan's office, do you guys have a lot of veterans on your offensive line? We have a lot of guys that have starts. Yes. Okay. Yes.

I was trying to bait you into breaking down. I can. I can. I can. I can. We can do that if you want. Yeah. If we want to spend another hour on Michigan,

we can do that on the show. Okay. All right, yeah. Hell yeah, boys. Hell yeah. Let's just, you brought up the 30-year-old's playing for BYU. Let's just go down to Arizona.

Oh, yeah. Let's go down to Arizona ad by BYU. They're playing in Provo. BYU is favored by seven and a half here. The over under on this game is 47 and a half points. Who's got a great feel for this game? Because I don't. You don't?

What's it with the line chain? No, it's seven and a half still. Seven and a half. So last year, this game goes into double overtime, correct? Arizona is winning this game by about 10 points. And then Bachmeier and what was it? Martin? L.J. Martin.

L.J. Martin. rushing attack with L. LJ Martin Company. They ended up coming back. They went in a double overtime. Listen, BYU, their whole game plan is establishing the run game. They've been very successful at it. Bachmire last year as a freshman did a great job rocking the 47.

You know, that's up for interpretation whether you like that or not. But Fafida, I love the storyline of this kid, no, Fafida. This is a grown ass man. Freshman year, he's got T-MAC, so that's a great outlet for you to have. As a freshman, you know you have a top. 10 pick in the NFL draft at the wide receiver position for you that you can just feed to over and over again. Sophomore year hits, it's his first year with Brennan, and you see his numbers go down quite a bit. The success they had was on the defense side of the ball. Going to his junior year and has

over 30 touchdowns and single digits and interceptions, the kid has had growth, and because of that sophomore slump, I love where he's at now. He's got two receivers, or he's lost three receivers. He's got two in Richardson and Spivey that are both different. One, a little smaller, quicker guy, and then Richardson, who's a little bit big. I think Richardson's the smaller one. Spivey's the big one. Spivey, bigger guy can get those 50-50 balls. Everything they run in Arizona is out of 11 personnel.

It's RPO all the way. This game, I think, is going to come down to who the defensive coordinator is at BYU, Pupinga. It's his first year as a D.C. And if you remember, before Jay Hill got to BYU, a lot of fans, A lot of boosters were kind of calling for Kalanish-Talke's head saying they can't get it done, especially on the defensive side of the ball. This is kind of Bay 12 football. Jay Hill comes in.

Their defense is top 20 in college football and kind of all that does settle so much so that crumble cookie comes in and saves them from going to Penn State. I like both these teams scoring a lot of points. I like BYU's offensive line and establishing the run. But on the other side of it, I love Fafita and his ability to push the ball down the field, make their decisions, and use his legs when he needs to. So I'm going to take the over in this game. 49.5.

Nope, that's Arizona. They're 47 and a half. You know what? I'm not going to take the over. I'm going to take Arizona plus 7.5. I'm going to take Arizona plus 7. I think this game is a lot closer that people think. I think Arizona has the ability to score a lot of points.

They have a great safety in BYU. But I like Arizona plus 7.5. I'll go 3 on that. Oh, okay. You want to know where I'm at? I would love. I woke up this morning and I thought, what am I going to eat for breakfast?

where's Willie on this Brigham Young game? Not in that order, not even in that order. Yeah, obviously, BYU's rushing attack versus Arizona's front seven. I do like what Arizona has defensively, and then it's going to be Fafita against this BYU secondary. Them going into Provo, here's where my pick comes in,

because what I'm doing here is I'm going, I like this confidence of BYU winning the game. I like the confidence of BYU covering, but my confidence isn't all the way there. So I'm going to go two-unit, confidence level, but I'm also going to buy a point. I'm going BYU minus six and a half because BYU last year haunted my entire season. I think I bet it against them damn near every week thinking that they wouldn't get it done. American Prenge. They beat my ass last week. And Arizona hasn't won

in Provo since 1975. BYU has an eight game home winning streak against Arizona. So I like I like BYU here, but I am going to buy a point hedge a little bit and get that six and a half because I hate the I hate this seven and a half. You see BYU winning by seven, I would, I'd be running through my TV. So I'm going to buy a point here and go minus six and a half, BYU. Is that legal? It's a unit. That is legal.

You can put whatever unit you want. It's my units. You go from, you go. You won't win as much money as you. Yeah. So when I was looking at it last night, it went from 110. And if you, if you buy a point to go minus six and a half, it'll be for the viewers out there, it'll be minus 148. All right.

Because it's a unit, we're going units. Yep. It just unlock something for you, Josh. This doesn't feel like a Josh move to do that. It kind of unlocks something for him, right? Look at his brain ticking. Where are you at? It is weird to see that point spread that low, isn't it?

I don't think so. What are you about to do? Altline? No, I'm not going to do it. It actually, the thought hadn't even entered my mind. We got up this episode to bring you, Jack Daniels. heard of Jack Daniels, but did you know they have multiple flavors of Tennessee whiskey. Jack, Jack by name, honey by nature.

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I was just going to lay the points. I man the more I think about it I still think I'm going to go Brigham Young and lay the points so I'm going to go minus seven and a half I don't mind that and it may land on seven and I text you and I just

simply should have bought a point just one point you remember when Brigham Young went to Texas Tech last year it was the biggest game in the Big 12 all year and there was a lot of build up and it ended up being Texas Tech kind of pulling away in the game because over four quarters BYU couldn't stand up to it, but nobody in that league could.

I can't help but think this ends up being how that game feels. And I feel like it's the kind of game where Fafita thinks he's got to do a little bit too much. And if he, you know, if he hits, great. They'll win the game. It'll be an upset. But there's just as much, if not, a greater likelihood of he forces too much and mistakes happen. And Brigham Young's great at just sitting there waiting for you to do it. It's like they say, well, you can't go through us.

So you're going to try and go over us or around us. We don't think you can do that either. and we'll be there to cash it in when you try too hard. I just think that's more likely the game script here. And there's so many commodities about Brigham Young that you know, that you trust. Like you said, they've all been there a long time. It's a good point about the D.C. churn,

and I can't know about that until I know. That's why I'm not going to go under. But I do think Brigham Young does enough here offensively, and I think they force enough mistakes to where they actually win and cover. It's two units for me, not a ton of confidence, but I will lay the seven and a half, bravely. So get you a point.

No, I want to. So not a time. Can I sway you at all in that the DC Gonzalez for Arizona, their defense last year was never won an opposing quarterback rating in the Big 12th? That is a good point. Does that sway you even a little bit? Because it's all is like what he's shown there is he knows how to game plan against BYU.

Like BYU is the better team. They have more talent. Fafida and then a couple of wide receivers that may or may not be great players. But it's the losing the DC, you're replacing Jack Kelly who had 10 sacks last year, so you need to find your pass rusher. You have a great safety who had a phenomenal freshman year. But it's like who is, I guess who's going to take over that defense? Because Jack Kelly was that guy.

He was the heart and soul. Now he's kind of, he's gone now. Yeah. And so that's where I kind of sit. I'm like, seven and a half feels like too many points for me. If it was at six and a half, I'd probably lean the other way as well. But seven and a half, Arizona, they seem to play them well. Veteran quarterback.

a DC that has played them well before and a DC on the other side of BYU who is an unproven guy when that was the strength of their team last year. Unproven, but also if I can give any pushback. And remind me, remind me his last name. Papinga. Papinga, who's working the phones and didn't really lose anybody in the transfer portal. Like you bring back six all conference guys. You get a couple transferred over, like kept the continuity together to where the guys in the building

must believe in the cat. Like, yes, unproven on paper, it's his first year and everything else. But to me, there's something to that continuity in that culture that BYU has built to where I am still bullish on them defensively because they got a good secondary, man.

I mean, they were top 15 in the country last year. So I can't swaying? I'm not swayed only because I think if you walk into that kind of dynamic, it's not you bringing your defense into Brigham Young that all them need to learn. Like they're all pretty much still there. It's probably, and I don't know,

this. I'm not that close to that program, but it's probably more you're coming here to run our defense. It's probably the dynamic. And I still, like, that doesn't change my mind on the idea that I think they'll force enough mistakes. Like, I think that's where some production comes. I think that's where some plus field position comes, more so than just, I think their offense is going to go up and down the field. Sounds like both of y'all are on like a Brigham Young seven point win, by the way. Well, I'm right there. Yeah, I'm right there. My computer tells me that it's right where it's at. And I'm like, my model. I'm like 10 to 13 point. That's where I'm, that's where I'm.

Louis Locke's model has it at seven. And your boy, they're going to play some smart football whether you wait for him to make a mistake. Because again, you got to check their birth certificate. You get a lot of 30-year-olds playing for BYU. A lot of 30-year-olds. A lot of 30-year-olds. These guys my age out there. Where we have? SEC versus Big Ten? Do you have something before we go there?

No, go ahead. Here we go. S.C. versus Big Ten. We got another matchup taking place up in Minnesota. Mississippi travels up to Minnesota. The line on this game is essentially a pick-em. Right now, my card is really. just 0.5, it doesn't matter. This is a money line game. It's it's Minnesota favored or Mississippi State favored by one and a half. The over under on this game is 55 and a half points.

Yeah. Can I just read you? These are players of note for Minnesota. Drake Lindsay, your quarterback. Good player. Darius Taylor is there the running back. Everything kind of goes to them. Javon Tracy, great return and great wide receiver. He set a record in the Big Ten just last week. On defense, Anthony Smith, number zero, and then T.J. Bush, a transfer from K. Those are the notable players that you need to watch out for in this game. This is the one from Mississippi State. Camario Taylor. Oh, but he is.

No, that's... That he is him. The kid is incredible. Like, you, I don't want to take your joke so I won't, but this guy's extremely accurate down the field. There was multiple times that the offensive line broke. He's in a pinch. All of a sudden, guys are dragging on his legs.

He gets away, still able to run the ball down the field for 30, 40 yards, or throw a dime to somebody. He is one of the most confident quarterbacks I've ever watched play college football. This kid truly believes in himself. And from a quarterback standpoint, the number one thing you need is to have the confidence in yourself to the lip of the ball. Now they played Yuell Monroe, who's not a great football team. Their offensive line didn't get a lot of push. The defensive line on Mississippi State, I thought Monroe did a great job of winning the line of scrimmage in that situation.

and Camario Taylor, as talented as he is throwing the ball down the field, there's a couple he get where he just, you know, back kind of loops out, he throws it, puts a muffin at his feet, five-yard in, feet are planted, everything looks good, and then all of a sudden it's in the dirt or it's a little bit wide, ball gets tipped, but the Rose defense, they just can't figure out a way to get the ball. I think if you play against better talent, which they are this week,

they are, he's going to give up the ball a few times. I think Minnesota is as much as they kind of lack the talent, in the Big Ten to compete at a, you know, college football playoff national championship level. PJ Fleck always has those guys in the right spots at all the time. Drake Lindsay was 6-4-235 and he can throw an absolute rope. Taylor in the backfield, the whole game plan is how do we get him in the ball? Out of our opening plays, if we have 15 opening plays, we would love to get him the ball 11 times. You saw in the first couple of drives at the game, they want to establish the run.

I think their offensive line is pretty good. I know they're a somewhat inexperienced. but on the defensive side of the ball, everyone is in the right space, right place at all times. The defense line can rush. They played East Illinois last week. There's not a whole lot to go off of that,

except for there was one drive East Illinois had to score a touchdown. Their success came from misdirection where the offensive line, the quarterback would go this way, ball would go out to the flat the other way, and they would gain 15, 20 yards. That became East Illinois' game plan. And after that drive, every time they tried to try that after that,

Minnesota was on top of it in the right spot. So that tells me that this team makes great on the sideline. They make changes on the sideline quickly and efficiently. So I like Minnesota here. I'll take the points. I mean, if you want to give them to me, I'll take them. I'll take plus one and a half. And I'll put four on this.

I like Minnesota. Do you like Minnesota? You're very confident. I feel really good about Minnesota in this game at home, just outside of Dinky Town. I gotcha. My confidence is low. I'm one unit on this. SEC versus Big Ten.

Penalized versus unpenalized. Electric Factory versus a true pro. This is essentially Dallas Carter versus Permian. If you really think about it. I like the under. I like the under this week of 55 and a half. I'm only going to place one unit on it because I'm just not the most confident.

I am obsessed with Camaro Taylor. This dude can run like a deer. He's got a piss missile for an arm. If every play was designed over 20 yards, he's hitting it. Because you get him out of the back field you get him underneath. He's still got that piss missile

with an arm going out of it. It's like, hey, buddy, you can dial it in. Just hit my man in the flat. Right. But my confidence here is out of one. Both offenses put up a lot of points last week and the freak that Camario Taylor is. I can see everybody salivating on the over.

I'm just going to go under because I think they're going to play, they're going against a good football team. I don't know who's going to win clearly. But Minnesota is a lot more efficient offensively. They're a lot more fundamentally sound defensively. I think they're going to slow the game down a little bit. And again, if you have a couple turnovers to where it's just Camario kind of running around and making place happen. I just see this being a not a low scoring game, like getting up close to that 55 and a half mark, but I like the under.

I like the under this week. One unit, one simple, one simple unit, tiny little unit. Just a little teeny unit. Just a little teeny tiny unit. I know a guy who roots for Mississippi State. He's in sports media, college football media. And I told him Monday at 8.22 a.m. If you're smart, you'll brand this week as Camario Taylor versus the Big Ten.

And he said, he texted me back something doubtful. I don't want to use his exact words. Right, right, right, right. And I said, you're going to win this week. And he said, I've been a fan of this team for a long time. And I said, yeah, but they put me in their hype video. He didn't respond back. Not important.

It's my most confident. a game on the board all week. I'm going to slap the table on it. Mississippi State will go up there and they'll win by a touchdown or more. Wow. Yeah, feel really good about it. Feel really good about it. I think they'll come out of this week massively overhyped, but that's something that we can deal with in week three. Right, we'll temper those expectations. What time is this kickoff? You know, Klump? Okay. So you take them plus one and a half? I sure am. No, minus one and a half. Yeah. All of us are just in different spots right now. You feel that. I mean,

And you're... Everything you said about Camario Taylor? Yeah. I actually believe about him. I agree. You think he's going to beat O'11 out there on the field. Yeah, I think he'll be the best player on the field Saturday. I'm not talking about from NFL draft.

I'm not talking about all that. I'm saying the play that he has Saturday, I think will, it'll grab a lot of eyeballs. I'm talking about casuals. Like, we watch him. We've already known about him. And I think maybe some people have heard his name, but they haven't watched him. They definitely started to this week because that viral clip of him, essentially being flat-footed, Shoulder square and roping at 60 yards down field.

I mean, they set a school record by over 100 yards of what the previous record was of total offense. Yeah. Like it is. And what is he 6-4-230? Yeah. The kid is fucking unbelievable. Fast, bro. Yes, I agree.

The only thing I have hesitation in is the short yard throws that are just total gibbys that he just kind of puts in the dirt every once in a while from an accuracy standpoint. Like the overconfidence sometimes. First play of the game, they roll out. He takes, he tries to throw up. overt and there is an underneath route about 20, 25 yards that is wide open, that I'll be massively explosive and he doesn't take it because he wants, he wants what we're talking about. It's how athletic he is, how he's not afraid of anything. He can throw a rope from a flat-footed, all the things.

And he can do all those things. I'm baking on Minnesota slowing this game down about the defensive line having a good pass rush. Just playing a smart football team. Just a smart, gritty, salty football team. Like slow it down. over a high-tempo offense versus an offense that wants to control the clock. They want to sit there and you're playing up in Minnesota. They're going to lean on you.

I'm just not strong on their defensive line at Mississippi State. They didn't feel to me like they were really answering the physicality of U.L. Monroe. Yeah. To your point, too, people who are tuned in that could be casuals. You started to hear Camaro Taylor's name, buy the stock in Camaro Taylor. But I also can't quit buying the stock in the Fleck Bank. Because they're going up to Minnesota. You got O. PJ Fleck up there.

They're not going to make a mistake. Not a single one. That's why Minnesota is in the playoffs every year. They can get beat, but they're going to be in the right spot while they get beat. I'm hearing 70 degrees in sunny. Yeah. Great day for some ball. But yet if Mississippi State wins this game,

check back with me in December, and I will fully count this as a Southern team winning a game up north in northern conditions. Because no one will even remember by that point. That's the SEC page. They went up to Minnesota. Minnesota. They went all the way up there. All the way. Yeah, they didn't even beat St. Louis. I feel good about this game. This is a five for me. You are one and oh on the season on five unit bats. I'm undefeated. Yeah, you are. You son of a big. You are too. God. As we won. You never as good as you are. You do all. You never as bad as you think you are. We had the entire floor around that Baylor Auburn game. Yeah, that was a big portion of the floor sitting around that Baylor, all. burn that two-point conversion and just man when it was four was it fourth and ten fourth

11 or 12 you're talking too loud about the game can I be honest to hey wasn't his it's fourth and long and DJ lagway I'm like okay this is where we're gonna hit here and the DJ lagway made it happen but then he made he DJ lagwayed on that emotion DJ lagwayed on that last play you can I tell you something that like it's even more important than Josh these five units is he has successfully gotten us off the scent of he bought stocking DJ Legway again this year. He said, hey, I wasn't wrong. I was just early.

And he had three turnovers, two turnovers. He was crippled. He was dragging around a peg leg. Yeah, but then it started going well, and then he started looking good. DJ Lagway should have gone to the hospital at halftime. Instead, he went to that locker room, and he did his best. He made it, for damn sure it made it seem like that way.

If that ball was just here, instead of here, they win that game. Pray for prayer review this week. DJ's not done. I'm not John Josh. I'm not going to say... Shrums not even here. Are you serious? It's crazy we're over an hour into the show

and you're just now realizing Shirms not here. Wow. What is your friendship? Would you say about Foxholes and Week 2 and all that stuff? I'm with you, dude. I'm alone in my Foxhole. Actually, I got clump. I got clump in my foxhole,

which is the worst guy to have a new foxhole. He is the... I love him. I think he's great. He is the worst person to have in your foxhole with you. I'll tell you what, he makes you feel confident. The Michigan game has turned him so much that he has gone back to being a troll in the internet. Or he's just saying, Vimos, Atlanta's shit where I'm sitting there rocking my baby and I'm just like, bro, we got to, we can't be doing this.

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tie going to do in Kentucky. But right now, Bama favored double digits on the road minus 10 and a half at Kentucky. The over under on this game is 49 and a half. Oh. We have some paper popper stats. And hopefully it's about Alabama performing on the road under DeBore. It is how they perform on the road under Kalin DeBore. Kailin DeBore is a ranked favorite on the road.

seven and five straight up four and eight against the spread this is delini walker stats he's catching kentucky in week two so even if kentucky's going to be bad this year they don't know that they're healthy they're at home it's it's really the first it's kind of like the premiere last week was the dress rehearsal against the penguins of youngstown state this is the season debut to the world of will Stein as a head coach. So you got two new quarterbacks in this game. Keelan Russell's making his first meaningful start. So is Kenny Menchie. I'm looking forward to seeing how Menchie performs. Keel and Russell wants all things break down for him. He can bail himself out with his legs. I don't think that's Kenny Minchie's game per se. Bama last week, it was a big final score against

East Carolina. Looks good. The box score looks good. If you watch the game, which I did, and you're hotel room without you there and I appreciate that. Yes, sir. No context needed. Absolutely no context needed. Operationally, it was unsound, which is not the first time you said that about a team with a first time starter at quarterback, but there was a lot of stuff that you don't have to pay the price for last week, that if you duplicate it on the road against Kentucky, you would have to pay the price for like Ryan Williams dropping balls. No one cares because you won the game and he still had over 100. But you do that this week, you probably do pay for it. I do think that defensively, you had to love what you saw from Bama last week.

And that was really more so than the quarterback position, what I was watching all throughout fall camp and to start the year, because that was the area last year you could get them a little bit, especially short yardage. They were like 15th of 16 in terms of total size. I think I said that last week up front. So they've greatly upgraded there. They're much deeper personnel-wise there right now. So when they go on the road this week, everyone will similarly to what we talked about with other teams, they'll be watching the quarterback position. To me, I'm just as much watching E.J. Crowell at tailback, who's probably their best, even though he's a true freshman. I'm really watching that offensive line have to go on the road for the first time. That's still very much a work in progress.

I'm watching Keelan Russell, some of his escapeability in some plays that broke down last week against inferior athletes. is he still upright against a legitimate SEC team on the road? Remains to be seen. I do think if the Kentucky run game is not there, I don't know that they have

the skill at wide receiver against Bama secondary to really take advantage. I don't think they have game changers at wide receiver. I think Alabama does have that ability. I have not gotten to where I can trust them on the road

under DeBore in this spot, though. So as far as the spread goes, I'm taking Kentucky plus 10 and a half. It is a one unit bet for me. Another low confidence game. I think the number is almost dead on the money right. So I think it's like Tennessee. I think Tennessee will win on the road but not cover.

I think Bama will win on the road but not cover. So you're really betting one game this week. You got one game that you feel the most confident about and that's Mississippi State. My entire life is in the hands of Camario Taylor. Yeah. It was DJ Lagway. Camaro Taylor, this is a reputation game.

Sure was. It was a DJ Lagway. There was. Camaro Taylor is a reputation game for you. DJ came through for me. Well, he did, you know, there was a rumor floating around that I took Baylor outright, which, as we all know, is complete nonsense. And I don't know who propagated it.

You had your opportunity to speak on it. On live TV. I don't know who spread the rumor. Didn't shun it. Almost could have been a hero. We're in the entertainment business. No doubt. And it was a lie, but it was an entertaining lie.

So I let it ride. Okay. And I literally told you before commercial big, I was like, hey, I'm going to serve it up like this. Come on in. Yeah. And I thought to myself, and I'm like, he's not, to myself, surely he's not gone anywhere. No, no, what happened is you told me during the break,

but the people were talking in my ear. And so all I saw was, I had no idea it was coming. But I am taking Kentucky plus the points, one unit. You like paper popper. I got a paper popper set. Go ahead. I hate this line. Oh, wow.

That's my paper. Does it sit down the paper right there? Yeah, it is great. At the very top. Hate this line. Yeah, it does. I did enjoy seeing Alabama try to run the foot. I feel like it was more by design from old coach grub.

They did not do a very good job of it. Again, I almost said Camaro Taylor, but Russell, Keelan Russell, having over 80 yards, like on the ground, then you want to go back and look at the tape, and it's all scrambled drill. Like the dude is a freak athlete as well, similar to the Camaro Taylor, Phazon, Brandon. Yeah, I don't like this line.

I'm just gonna tail Josh with one unit. And that's strictly just for the camera, just going to tail Josh Pate with one unit. Part of me wanted to go over in this game, but yeah, like I like Minchie and Stein. I like that pairing. I will go on record and say I like Minchie. Wow. But against the secondary, against O'Hubbard in the secondary, if they show up,

if Alabama's not able to run the football that well, that's clearly an under vibe for me. I like both offenses being able to move the ball. That would be an over. Again, I hate everything about this line. I'm leaning on DeBore and Bama traveling on the road as a double-digit favorite. And the stat four and eight, you know, against the spread. I'm just going to go ahead and take Kentucky one unit plus 10 and a half. Wow.

Because, and also it's like, to your point, Kentucky's kind of juiced right now just internally with momentum that they could have going because they don't know if they're bad or not. They don't know if they're good or not. You know, they got this breath of fresh air with Coach Will Stein who does have the confidence in the media, who's got those guys believing, who we've been to, we've been to the program out at Oregon when he's there, where he's got everybody kind of dialed in and talking ball with him to where they're all going to know what to do. They're going to

know how to win this game. It is going to be against a great secondary against Bama. So I'm just going to go Kentucky plus ten and a half, one unit. Yeah, I think that's great. I like I like Stein. I think he's an incredible, was an incredible offensive coordinator at Oregon. He's had multiple quarterbacks

that are in the NFL or going to the NFL. I think the thing he does incredibly well is having his quarterback see the entire field. and make very good decisions and don't put themselves in positions to give up the football. Like he does a great job of painting a picture. These are how these defenses look, but you have a great secondary in Alabama. They came in and you know the head coach is an offensive guy,

and you can see it the way they spent their money in the transfer portal. Like they juice their offensive line. They have a bunch of what they tried to get a bunch of weapons. Some guys that had great first years, get hurt and then come in, but still you've seen a little bit on film of like, oh, this guy had 800 yards receiving this guy is a five-star, this freshman's pretty good. I love the balance of Kentucky from a run and pass standpoint. I can see the secondary being an issue,

but I think they'll make up for that in the run game. But I also love Keel and Russell and his ability to scramble. I don't think the run game, I'll be proven wrong if they ever do that the run game's gotten better because it really is all scramble drill and an elite athlete getting away from inferior opponents. Ryan Williams, other than that, it's like, who else is going to show up, and your number one wide receiver does have like this yep type of issue. Like the big news coming out of Tuscalo this week is that he's not going to be wearing gloves during the game and that's going to

fix everything. The offensive line for Alabama does make me worried. I think they have like a, they have a freshman at left tackle, two sophomores that have little to no starting experience, and then their center is a transfer from Cal Poly. Like so they have not a lot of continuity, not a lot of guys that have experienced in SEC games, and I think they could work against them. But as much as it'll work against them, Keelan Russell's athletic ability will keep the chains moving. I like the over in this game. I like both teams scoring a lot of points. It's a 49 and a half right now. I'm going to put three units on it. But I'm excited about Will Stein and Kentucky. If I had to pick one, I think Alabama walks away with this win.

And we just still have question marks on both sides. Like can Alabama still run the ball? is Kentucky good or are they kind of middle of the pack? What are they going to be? I don't think any questions truly get answered at the end of this game, but I think it'll be exciting for a lot of fans to watch. So I like the over. I could get with that. I had it on there, but I just like, you know what?

I don't have the best feel. Minci, dude, I think she's kind of nice. And if he is, that's plus 10 and a half will be there. Yeah, it'll be there for us. One unit sitting right there for the taken. Yeah, absolutely. We got gravely game of the week. Yep.

Gravely game of the week. Texas Ohio State. Ohio State traveling to Austin. I said it last week on the show, Steve Sarkeesian, you zoom out and look at this entire season. He could be somebody potentially entering the A-Gap. This is a huge game. And we are blessed to get to see a game like this.

Still during this era of college football, with Ohio State going down to Austin, Texas. Because in a lot of pockets of college football, these are both the best of the best in each conference, especially talent-wise. You still have the question mark, like what's Ohio State's offensive line going to be? But this is a huge game that had implications last year that Stark is up on the, in front of the press, saying that you take this game out of it or we come out on top of this game. That decided a playoff spot for Texas.

And to mention the fact that they win the box score against Ohio State last year in week one, but they just didn't win the actual game. I think they had over 100 more total yards on offense. This game is, I think, is perfect. The line is perfect, where it's like, you go with your heart, you go with your belief, because both teams are extremely talented, and all the question marks that you may have had about them, seems like they've answered. It talks about Texas.

Their biggest issue last year was running the football. Last year, they had 12 rushes for over 20 yards in the totality of the season as a team. And Hollywood Smothers did that by himself last year. So they've answered that. They got Relique Brown, who also rushed for 1,000 yards. They brought in a tackle from Wake Forest, a lot of different transfer guys in the middle, and then they have Gooseby at the left tackle position. You turn on the film in week one, it's against nobody's, but the offensive line looks like

they're moving as a cohesive unit as opposed to five guys working individually, which is a good sign when you're worried about the run game. Three wide receivers that could be wide receiver ones anywhere else. Arch Manning, after the third quarter of Mississippi State, has turned into the manning we believe he could be. But then you flip to the other side and it's like, oh, Ohio State has a bunch of draft picks on the defensive side of the ball. What's going to happen there? Well, Matt Patricia has already proven to us that he can do that because he had the number one defense in the country last year. And Arvel Reese, we didn't even know what that name was at this point in the season.

Julian's saying the biggest knock on him is that when pressure starts to come, he doesn't do a good job with the football. Well, we saw one play last week where he's getting hit as he's throwing a deep double move to Jeremiah Smith. And that ball is playing. place perfectly. So you look at everything and it's like, yeah, both these teams seem to have answered their questions. Where I lean is, I lean the A gap. I lean with Sark and Mushchamp, knowing that his specialty is getting quarterbacks uncomfortable, which would work in favor against what the knock has been on Julian Stey, even though he's beefed up a little bit. I like Texas at a minus one and a half here. It's at home. They have to travel. I think both teams could walk out of

here with a win. Clearly the lines says the same thing, but at the end of day, it's like, I'm just going to go with the home team. I think Arch has a get-back game here, and they cover I'll put three units on that. You have a good feel? Not really. I'm going to go two units on Texas minus the points, but do you feel like we're kind of trying to will Texas into one of these big wins finally? Yeah, absolutely. I could see that. But it's like, I mean, we talk about the wounded animal theory in the beginning of the show, like Sark is every bit of that. He just might not know it yet. Like It's like when you see a deer get hit and they kind of run off. Like they know something bad happened, but they don't know, you know, how bad the damage actually is.

This is one of those games Sarkas has to win if this A-Gap is going to kind of start to get a little bit more quiet. Because you talked about the egos of Texas, the cowboy hats, the pageantry, you know, Bivo. Like this school has is a blue chip school that demands national championships. And he has the roster. They have the boosters money in it. So I think in a lot of ways, yes. Because on the other side, you look at a hospital. States, like, oh, they've won a national championship. The biggest knock on them is they ever

want a big 10 championship in a few years. But they still are playing for national championship. They're in semifinals every single year. Like Ryan Day is sitting pretty on his side of the fence. And it's like, we're kind of looking at Sark like, bro, we're rooting for you here. We kind of need you to get this done. That's how I feel. In order for the SEC to have serious relevance. And if the SEC does win this game, it's like after week one, everyone's going to overreact. But we would also say, Ohio State's now you're clear number one. based on what's taking place in week one. So I agree with everything you just said.

I still think it's out there for Sark. Like I keep waiting for it. I do think last week, granted, it's, they didn't run Arch at all last week. His mobility will be part of their game plan this week. They had, maybe this is a paper popper. I don't know. They had a tackle at or behind the line of scrimmage 11 times.

Per Tyler Horka. That's Texas's offense. getting met at or behind the line of scrimmage. Could be an aborician. Could be something that pops up early against Ohio State, and they look like they're in quicksand, and they can't get started at all. So I'm keeping an eye on that.

I really think both defenses have a net advantage against these offensive lines until proven otherwise, which just leads me to think, is this the kind of game where things look kind of discombobulated? There's not a whole lot of rhythm, and boom, Jeremiah Smith for 70. Or boom, Ryan Wingo. Cam Coleman for 65 because it doesn't feel like the kind of game where either offense is just consistently moving the ball. It feels like pick your spots, take your shot kind of game.

And I also think back to the last couple of years, like I can picture Ohio State watching what Georgia's been able to do to Texas the last three times they played them and saying, we can do that. Not to mention we did it to him last year in Columbus. But I also picture Texas watching what Ohio, or watching what Miami did to Ohio State in the playoffs. saying, wait a minute, like we got Colin Simmons here. So we could get after them. Plus, we're going to have home crowd advantage at our back. So we could disrupt every bit as much. If there's any doubt about Julian saying and how he handles pressure, we can put it on him. And so I think it's just like it's it's irresistible for us. It's a movable object.

At least in your mind, it is if you're either one of these teams. To me, it's as simple as if I think all things else are pretty evenly matched, I'll just ride home field. And so I'll go Texas minus one and a half. It's two units for me. Can't wait to watch it. Yeah, I feel the same way. I think at the end of day, both these teams are very equal and look great against each other on paper, and that's where home field is the thing

that just moves me to the side of Texas. I think Texas needs to win it. Ohio State would love to win this thing. I think Texas needs to win this game. I think they feel that expectation going into it. All of the pressure, even coming off the loss last year, being a three-loss team trying to argue your way into the playoffs, the potential A-gap that Sark could be going in.

Everybody in Texas, is going to feel this moment this Saturday. And I think they're ready for the moment come Saturday. Where I'm kicking myself and kicking us three is I'm aligned. Oh, no. On Texas. You need to go Ohio State. Oh, no.

I can't do it. Matter of fact, I have a text. I'm not going to say if it was from Arthur Smith or not. But if you, Taylor, he says in Delaney, but I guess he doesn't watch the show. But if you, Taylor and Delaney pick Texas on your show, you will all be known as Judas to me. And, dude, yesterday, this is one of those games, too, where I wake up each morning and I'm kind of different on this game.

Where yesterday I felt like I felt confident about Ohio State. Today, where I'm kicking myself is that this is a game where you pick Ohio State because it's like until it happens with Texas, you have to show me that this is going to happen at Texas. Whereas we're all three rooting for this to happen this weekend in Texas. Yeah, but why are we, the better question is, why are you two rooting for it to happen? Clearly people are going to be like, oh, Taylor went to Michigan. He wants Ohio State to fail.

It's like, well, they are my Big Ten champion. But that's honestly not how I feel in the situation. Because I do love art whether that was him or not. But also, you shouldn't say whether it was. You shouldn't say whether it was not. And if he wants to talk about Judas, like he became that the minute he decided to sign on with Ohio State to me. That's a great point. Yeah.

You talk about stabbing one of your boys in the back. It's about burning bridges. Like, he called us friends at one point. And so I pick a different team. That's crazy. Quick brick from the episode. So quick break from the conversation. Again, make sure you are subscribed to this channel. Make sure you're dropping comments throughout the episode, but we are brought to you by neutral.

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went against good defenses. It was a defensive battle. My favorite part about this game is the Matt Patricia aspect, is the Will Must Champ aspect. So where I'm coming out on leaning Texas and like, yeah, I guess you can say rooting for Texas is I think both coordinators, there's going to be a moment

to where one of them has something dialed up in the second half. And a turnover takes place to where the quarterback, their quarterback is in position to go out and win the game. And I just think that moment this year belongs to Arch Manning. So for that, for that reason, that's why I like Texas minus one and a half at home. I just think Arch Manning, he is ready for this moment, especially when you look at how he finished last year, all the, just all of the noise that's been around this kid. I like Julian saying too. I just think Texas is going to get a turnover. They're going to be in enemy territory, it's going to be up to Archmanning to go win and win that game, whether it's the last series or a couple before, and then the defense bows up,

and Ohio State isn't able to figure it out at the end. I just think the moment is for Archmanning, and I'm going Archmanning in the moment on Saturday. What time is this game? So that's where I'm on the one and a half. 7.30. Eastern. Prime time. All right, birthday party would be over.

Yeah. Good. Yeah. Listen, we got Michigan, Oklahoma at 11. Like, after that game, we got a birthday party to be up for. So you're not going to watch Camario Taylor up in Minneapolis. It'll be on the game. It'll be on the TV.

You'll be aware. Yeah, we'll be sitting there. Oh, that's great, sweetie. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Look at that Pokemon. And then she'll walk away and be like, so what is, what is Camaro Taylor? What's Minnesota? Three and three. Fourth and two. Depending on the result of this Michigan, Oklahoma game, there's a couple different situations. Yep. Tell them.

There's one where I am just alone finding a TV to watch Camario Taylor and trying to give my man as much space as possible. Because I don't know, I won't know what. to do during that afternoon. But then there's the other situation where the confidence level of five and that money line hits and Michigan shocks the world against Oklahoma.

Can you imagine him at 3.30? Oh, look like a genius. It's a party for you. The kids just happened to be here. He took it over. We're playing Pokemon. It's gonna be a wake up for every Michigan fan who's hating on Bryce Underwood right now.

And I will look like a genius. But the most likely scenario is I look like a fucking dumb ass at the end of this whole thing. good with those odds. Yeah. We'll be playing Pokemon. We'll be playing the game, excited around the kids, just being, we're going to both be I won't be there if we lose. I'm going to be Brock with Onyx,

dude. Yeah. And then we're going to be checking out Camaro Taylor, just vibes are going to be high and we're back. We can't wait to see this Ohio State, Texas game. Man, was it great to get that monkey off your back? Yeah. Hey, Bryce, I can't with you through for 350. I'm with you. But when, like, you guys commanded the line of scrimmage. Bryce made the plays

when he had to. Blake Fraser, Sprague, Quarnera, these guys just get after a phobia owning Oklahoma's defense. Owning them. Brent Venables crying. Wow. Yeah. Go that far.

You lose that big, you'll probably cry. Do you do fan fiction at all? It's like a. You're doing it right now actually. I'm just saying like you normally participate in fan fiction. I was doing something wrong there like as a website that actually had my ID in for, no, what is that? Fan fiction is like I grew up in the South and it never

snowed in Georgia. And I always wanted to see snow. So we did what is called wishcasting, where you turn on the weather channel, you look at the seven day forecast and it doesn't matter if it says 52 in rain. You're thinking to yourself, nah, it'll be cold in the 52. Like, it's going to snow next Thursday. It's not going to snow next Thursday. But we're fictionalizing it. Weather fictionalizing it. You can do that in football. Like you can get yourself sucked down that rabbit hole. You can even, hey, it's going to snow. I'm banging the table. It's going to snow. It doesn't change the fact that it's not going to snow. So all I'm saying, is I used to be heartbroken every Christmas morning as a kid growing up because I thought all the

fairy tales and the storybooks where you saw snow on Christmas, that meant it snows on Christmas. But in Harris County, Georgia, it doesn't snow on Christmas. And I would wake up every morning, completely dejected, that's just grass outside. There's no snow. But I did that to myself. Yeah. It's not God's fault. It's not the weatherman's fault. It's my fault. But I didn't know how to assignate blame properly. I didn't know how to take personal responsibility. as a six-year-old kid. Now, you may think to yourself, once you're a full-grown adult,

you'll know how to do that. But not always. He just fan fiction theoryed your ass, bro. Yeah, he's fan non-fiction. So you're saying, maybe it's all irrelevant. Maybe it's nonsense. You're saying, I'm you at six.

I'm saying you're going to look out on the ground at 3.30 Saturday. Yeah, and there'll be a birthday party going on. There could be. There could be snow out there. There could be snow. I told you I think it's going to be a close game. but I said it with low confidence.

You slapped the table five units on this. I did. There's no doubt in your mind. No. Week two. Post week two is when I will give my true opinion about Michigan. Until then I ride with my team. That's great.

So you could be off of them after week two. Yeah. Oh shit. What? I will have to take a real look at the mirror and have a conversation about what Michigan really is this year after week two. What? Not to call you out.

your fandom you said you can't leave the team. I was like, hold up the sign, Jack. We ride with Michigan until the wheels fall off. And then we ride. Yeah, if Michigan gets embarrassed against Oklahoma, the wheels would technically be off at that point. That's not going to happen.

But the speech you gave is. I wouldn't say F, Michigan, Bryce Underwood, put him in a casket, he's done. I would have a real stick look like, okay, clearly we're not the team we thought. You're out of the foxhole. No, I'm in the foxhole, but I just know like,

I'm jumping on the grenade now, and I know when it blows up, my pulse is done. But that's how you would want to go. Yes, we've had the conversation. I told you, I would love for you guys to be in the foxhole with me. You go one unit, but then you tell me a story that says, you're really five units. Talking about a six-year-old Josh Payton,

I'm the kid looking out the window being I hope there's snow on the ground. Oh, he's not in the fox. I'm in the fox. No, you're not. Yes, I am. I took the under. No, this guy's, I do not want this to turn into me versus you versus you. We're all, like, separately on different teams.

I'm saying I have a team right here and I'm in the foxhole of this team. I look around and I don't even see many Michigan fans in this foxhole with me. I don't see you guys with me. I see somebody on one unit Oklahoma and I see somebody on the under. I took the under. Yeah, that is a roundabout. 2017. Under hits. You win. We all win. 17 to 6 Oklahoma, of course. He and I win and you know,

to be found. Yeah. Yeah. Like, that's another trap. You go back to the Foxhole and be like, this is why you don't go in the Foxhole of Taylor. So I get it. I don't blame you.

I'm not mad at you. This is not your fight. This is my fight. Okay. And on 3.30, if it doesn't go my way, guess what? I'll smile when I see you. I'll give you a hug. You'll look at my eyes and know the truth.

But we out here for a kid's birthday party. Yeah. And yeah. But it's going to be back here, not out here. You know? I'm just going to let it eat. Are you guys going to storm the field if you win? I think here's what I think, dude. Jack the sign, cue the sign.

I think we storm the field the rest of the season. Like Clemson, you do it after every game. Do they do that? Yeah. Like, no matter what. Don't tread on fandom. Your sign's wrong. Don't tread on fandom.

That's a Saturday. Fandom. People who tread on fandom are treading on Saturday. You're endorsing the flag. You wore that last week. Yeah. I agree with that. But I also agree with don't tread on fandom.

And that's a better sign. Because unless you just go, I'm done with my team, you're allowed to celebrate however you want. Is it what I wanted to happen? No, but I wanted to beat Winston by 50. I would have loved for that to happen. And I've been like, all right, we're ready for week two. And maybe we're sitting in a foxhole together.

Maybe we're also sitting in a foxhole together. He called you a six year old. He did. All good. All good. All good. Let's get out. Well, we got nice.

Hey, save me. Let's get out. Two. Two units on the Texas Longhorns. I, dude, Arthur Smith, I love you. One of the first five episodes on Bustin with the Boys. I love you dearly. Could you tell him to stop confusing with me of Delaney Walker?

I get so tired of him doing that to me. It's an easy. It's an easy. It's an easy next up. It's an easy next up. It's an easy. Dog of the week. Let's get our dogs of the week.

Mine's going to be easy here. I'm going Charlotte plus 47 and a half against Old Miss. I love both. dogs against LSU and Ole Miss because neither Ole Miss or LSU is going to even care about who in the hell they're playing this weekend. They're all on to week three. They're all on to we'll get to that game next week, but they

could give a shit who they play this weekend. They're running cards right now on the practice field as we speak. They're reviewing tape as we speak as you watch this on Wednesday evening. They're reviewing the film for next week on their opponent, LSU or O'Miss. So this is Charlotte plus 47 and a half. That's the reason

why. All right. I am going Old Dominion plus I believe I got 19 and a half against Virginia Tech. I think people are a little bit too amped up about that week one win. And James Franklin boldly defended his players for dapping up the troops. Officials threw a flag on it. James Franklin said, that's an un-American penalty. He wasn't wrong, but it has nothing to do with Old Dominion this week.

So I like Virginia Tech to win, but not to cover. I got ODIU plus 19 and a half. You know what you'll like? My parlay. Go ahead, Taylor. It's all of the week. Yesterday in our team meeting, Jack Coleman sat there and gave us a whole breakdown on the man in the red bandana and how this guy during 9-11 went up and down

20 flights of stairs and saved 18 people Boston College every year remembers the man in the red bandana and they have red bandanas on the whole student section wears the cheerleaders wear it and they celebrate this unnamed man who was selfless looked death in the eye and said I'll save these people before I go I think that's absolutely beautiful they play ruckers this week and I've got ruffer Ruckers covering plus three and a half. I like Rookers, they switch the quarterback up, you're never as bad as you think you are, and you're never as good as you think you are.

BC didn't play great. BC don't look good. I'm not saying Red Bandana game doesn't go to BC. I'm just saying Rucker coverage, and it's a lot closer. Oh, that's good, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's classic. Right, yeah.

Also, Ruckers is doing the 36, right? Because there was 36 men and women. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, 37 for, The firefighters. Okay. So it's very patriotic game. Fair enough. You wish both teams could win.

Is it, isn't the, uh, that you are betting against Boston College red bandana and the game is being played on 9-11? Yeah. Other than that, though. And timeout.

Isn't his name? I'm betting against the spread. Totally different. Well, you're right. And time out. 9-11, Red Man and Red Bandana.

It just happens to be that night. And you also said unnamed man. Like, doesn't he have a name? It isn't like Wells Crowler? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Do it. And they're gonna have, do it for Will's. To the people in those towers, they did not know his name. The people in those towers. The name is known. This unnamed man.

I think it's on the jersey. Yeah. Do it for Wells. Do it for Wells. It's on the back of the jerseys. You guys know what I'm saying, man. Hey. We're getting saved.

You want to check out this parlay? I got to hear this. I got a parlay. I got a unit on this parlay this week. Oh, come on, Jack. Hold the sign up. Hey, hold up, Cody. I said I like Rutgers this week and you're like,

yo, I love Rutgers this week. And then you go and just do the 9-11 thing to me to step? That's something I'll never forget, dude. I will never forget that. I'm in your foxhole. You're not. This parlay, check it out. Mizzou Money Line, Alabama Money Line,

BYU money line Tennessee alt line minus six and a half Hmm Virginia Tech alt line minus nine and a half we could still both win go ahead Iowa alt line minus six and a half a dozen so far plus 487 okay that is plus four and seven yeah because there's some heavy favorites in there you don't say all right listen we go see what that one unit does all right all right East Tennessee State plus 35 and a half Let me get Louisville

minus 36 and a half Who are they playing? Doesn't matter, does it? It literally doesn't. They does not. They could never have mattered less. They lost the Ole Miss the way they did. North Dakota State Air Force

over 47.5. Three games only plus 585. Okay. Hmm. Check my numbers here. You out odds of me there. With half the games. I remember my teams.

I think I got Georgia Southern plus 20 and a half. What are you doing right now? You making them look up your parlor? I'm just making sure I got the numbers, right? I got here late. I didn't even write anything down. Georgia's Southern against Clemson plus 20 and a half. And I got Ohio State, Texas, under 49 and a half.

Damn, I like that one. One unit. Just a two piece. Just a two-piece. Hey, by the way, last week did you go as a parlay? Not on the show, but in general. Auburn Money Line and Baylor plus seven and a half? No.

I thought those would happen. Those are correlated. I don't think you got you got to do that. I saw you put out the tweet. I was playing some 3D chess if he put that on there. I don't think you can bet that. I did that UCLA. I bet UCLA in the over.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys hear me? What did you say? UCLA and the over. I bet that got that hit. Yeah, that was a good hit. That's a really good.

It was a good game too. 21-0 run in the fourth quarter. Man. I had two bowls of series. Because dude, I don't know how you guys felt. I was just exhausted from that entire day. But I'm sitting there, you finally take the socks off, kind of peel them off your feet.

The family was out of town in Maine, and I'm just sitting there on my couch with a bowl of honey nut Cheerios. Let's go. Just being excited. Dude, it was so hot. It was. In Louisiana.

It was hot. It was a hot one. So much fun, though. Had a great time. Actually, it wasn't that fun, to be honest, because that game. Honestly, it wasn't that fun because Jesse and is commentating in the bus.

Hey, I got me wanting to send myself through a wall. When we're on the bus driving to the airport, I already told him this. He knows all these answers. He thinks Oklahoma's going to beat Michigan's ass this weekend. Is that what you think, Jesse? Oh, yeah. God, did you? Good.

You know what that is? Just hearing the back now? That's a disrespect. He's just joining everybody else. Yeah. We'll see on Saturday, buddy. Come on the birthday party? No, because you'd be scared.

I was scared of my kid. What's that? My mind might have lost the man. Did it? Yeah, because that slap it just did, man. It was about to give it handed to you. The line on the Ohio State, Texas, I know it's kind of moved 48 and a half and 49 and a half, but that's the current line, right on points, 49.5. 49.5.

I'm surprised you didn't go under then for your pick, your two-unit pick. Saved it for the parlor. Got to roll with Texas. Yeah, save it for the Parlay. Got you, got you, got you. Gentlemen, hey. Great show. Great show.

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